Alastair would you please also notify debian-gis list about prospective packages of interest? It would be nice adding them to the general list monitored.
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 02:20:24PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Alastair McKinstry <mckins...@debian.org> > > * Package name : libgctp > Version : 1.0 > Upstream Author : Abe_Taaheri abe_taah...@raytheon.com > * URL : http://gcmd.nasa.gov/records/USGS-GCTP.html > * License : Mixed public-domain and BSD > Programming Lang: C > Description : General Cartographic Transformation Package Library > > The General Cartographic Transformation Package (GCTP) is a system of > software routines designed to permit the transformation of coordinate > pairs from one map projection to another. The GCTP is the standard > computer software used by the National Mapping Division for map > projection computations. > > This library is used by hdf-eos4 and hdf-eos5, which have ITP's assigned, > as well as libproj internally. > > The upstream author claified the license situation: > > The GCTP was originally developed by USGS. For EOS (funded by NASA) we > took it and added a few more projections to be used by HDF-EOS. Any one > can use it or modify it (both commercial and non-comercial) as long as > it is acknowledged. If you want to use it please use the latest versions ( > see download > at http://newsroom.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdptoolkit/toolkit.html ). The > source code is packaged with hdfeos and hdfeos5. > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.2 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: powerpc (ppc) > > > -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
